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The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine

by Pamela Kaufman

Published: 2003-03-25

Paperback: 544 pages

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One of history’s greatest women, celebrated by her contemporaries, descendants, and biographers, comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by bestselling author Pamela Kaufman.In 1137, fifteen-year-old Eleanor became Duchess of Aquitaine, a wealthy and powerful province in the South of...

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The Book of Fate

by Brad Meltzer

Published: 2011-10-01

Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages

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Brad Meltzer's #1 New York Times bestseller featuring a two-hundred-year-old code devised by Thomas Jefferson and a present-day conspiracy at the highest level of power ."Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming."So says Wes Holloway, a young presidentia...

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The Book of Fires: A Novel

by Jane Borodale

Published: 2010-01-21

Hardcover: 360 pages

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Reminiscent of Year of Wonders, a captivating debut novel of fireworks, fortune, and a young woman's redemption It is 1752 and seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel arrives in London pregnant with an unwanted child. Lost and frightened, she finds herself at the home of Mr. J. Blacklock, a br...

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The Book of Flying

by Keith Miller

Published: 2005-01-04

Paperback: 288 pages

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Our hero, Pico, is a poet and librarian, and forbidden to pursue the girl of his dreams, for she has wings and Pico does not. When he discovers an ancient letter in his library telling of the mythical Morning Town where the flightless may gain their wings, he sets off on a quest. It's a magical journey...

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The Book of Fred: A Novel

by Abby Bardi

Published: 2002-09-24

Paperback: 320 pages

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Filled with soulful humor and quiet pathos, Abby Bardi's boldly drawn first novel marks the debut of a joyfully talented chronicler of the quest for connection in contemporary life. Mary Fred Anderson, raised in an isolated fundamentalist sect whose primary obsessions seem to involve an ...

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The Book of Hours

by Davis Bunn

Published: 2008-11-04

Paperback: 322 pages

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Brian thought he had no future. Now he has the chance to start over...if he can solve the mysteries of the past found inside Castle Keep.After his wife's death, Brian Blackstone's days and hours had become a meaningless blur. He finally wills himself to go to the English village of Knigh...

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The Book of Illusions: A Novel

Published: 2003-08-01

Paperback: 321 pages

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Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann. Z...

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The Book of Jane

by Anne Dayton, May Vanderbilt

Published: 2007-06-12

Paperback: 304 pages

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Jane Williams is the happiest woman in New York. She has a dream job, a perfect Manhattan apartment, and a man she wants to marry. Her whole life is mapped out to the finest detail, and things just can't get any better. But in a New York minute, everything changes. After an evening on the ...

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The Book of Joe

by Jonathan Tropper

Published: 2005-01-25

Paperback: 338 pages

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Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his ne...

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The Book of Joe

by Jonathan Tropper

Published: 2004-03-30

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel...